Lip Makeup Recipes
Make your own lipstick, lip stain, and tinted lip balms in your favourite colours without a trip to the cosmetics counter.What do we want in makeup?
Adhesion? Slip? Opacity? A quick overview on the traits we want in our makeup and why.
DIY Cosmetic Ingredients You'll Need
The ingredients list for homemade cosmetics is a bit different than for most other homemade body products—here’s my overview and shopping list.
Help, I made a mess!
My best tips for cleaning up your DIY messes 🙂
My go-to cream highlighter & blush
I've been using and loving these cream cosmetics since December 2023 and though it was high time I shared the formulations 😄
DIY Color Changing Lip Gloss
Back in 2016 I was wandering through London and a display in the window of a fancy cosmetics shop caught my eye; it was Lipstick Queen's Frog Prince lipstick, and it was deeply, froggily green! I obviously had to try it, so in I went to swatch this baffling cosmetic....
Green-to-Pink Lipstick (2 Ways)
These lipsticks were inspired by the now-discontinued Lipstick Queen Frog Prince Lipstick, and they're so much fun 🐸 These Patron exclusive lipsticks pair with tomorrow's blog post and YouTube video (which you also now have access to here on Patreon). Watch...
The perfect level of dye for colour-changing lip glosses
After making quite a few colour-changing lip glosses, I've found the amounts of TKB's Presto Change-o recommended by TKB Trading are a lot. So, in this video I do some experiments to figure out precisely how much Presto Change-o is needed to create a...
Making clear (!) lip balm
After many experiments (and flops), I finally made clear, solid lip balm! Here's how 😄
DIY Moisturizing Lip Oil: 3 Ways
I've been having a ton of fun making lip oil formulations this year, and today I'm finally sharing three of my favourite formulations starring a new-to-me ingredient that I'm low-key obsessed with. These are super easy to stir up (no heating required!) and are a...
Getting to know polybutene (how much do you need?)
How much polybutene do you need (or want) in a lip formulation? It's super sticky, but also adds gorgeous richness and cushion to our formulations—so how much is just right? Let's find out with some hands-on ratio experiments!
Frosted Cranberry Matte Lip & Cheek Colour
This Frosted Cranberry Matte Lip & Cheek Colour is really neat; it's a hybrid between a matte liquid lipstick and a lip stain. It has a creamy consistency that dries down to a powdery, transfer-resistant finish. Richly coloured, it both wears and re-applies well,...
Long-wearing lip colour experiments
Today we're chatting about the long-wearing lip colour formulation I've been working on and testing + making the newest version together ❤️
Frosted Cranberry Lip Oil
I've had a ton of requests for a lip oil recently, and I thought this year's Frosted Cranberry theme was a great backdrop for a shiny new lip oil formulation 😄 This cheery red oil imparts moisture and shine to our lips and it smells softly of fresh, juicy...
Liquid lipstick formulation ramblings (and making!)
Continued work on a long-wearing matte liquid lipstick formulation + chat about how such formulations work and why they're a challenge.
Clear Lip Gloss Base (without Versagel!)
If you've been wanting a transparent lip gloss base from scratch, this is the formulation for you. You'll need just three ingredients to make a clear and versatile gloss base that you can customize in oh-so-many ways, with different carrier oils, colours, micas, and...
Blackberry Lip Gloss
Lip gloss is one of the first things I ever made (this post from late 2011 is nearly a decade old, wowza), with my first batches pre-dating Humblebee & Me! I've experimented with many different ways to get that characteristic soft creamy, glossy consistency, and...
Gold Dust Lip Cream
Today we're fully embracing summer with a rich, sparkly Gold Dust Lip Cream ✨ A creamy base carries a generous helping of shimmery gold things to bring some beautiful 24 karat loveliness to your days. Enjoy! Want to watch this project instead of reading it?...
Glossy Lip Stain
Today's DIY was inspired by a lip gloss advert I saw some time last year. It was for the Glossier lip gloss, and for some reason, the ad caught my eye. I clicked through and took a look at the ingredients, and the first ingredient was "Hydrogenated Polyisobutene"—and...
Sheer Satin Cheek & Lip Tint
This punchy red liquid cheek and lip tint has become a fast favourite of mine. On first glance it’s a thin, vibrant red liquid. It’s less red than you expect on application, and the slip is divine; lightweight and satiny, with a finish that is unexpectedly rich...
Creamy Stick Lip Tints
When it comes to makeup I actually wear on a regular basis I find I tend towards subtle, easy-to-apply stuff (read: stuff that goes on easily and lightly enough that it disguises my amateurish makeup application skills). These lip tints were born of my initial...
Basic Moldable Lipstick Base
When I got my awesome little TKB Trading Lipstick Mold one of the first things I wanted to investigate was the compatibility of the lipstick recipes in my book with the mold. The compatibility was resoundingly… not. Efforts to use the lipstick bases from my book...
Making Lipstick in a Lipstick Mold!
I'm often asked about making stick lipsticks, and turning the lipsticks from Make it Up into stick lipsticks, so I was super excited when TKB Trading got in touch and asked if I wanted to try their new (inexpensive!) lipstick mould. I've definitely looked at lipstick...
Fireworks Lip Gloss
I sometimes wonder if I'll ever outgrow glitter. I don't particularly want to, but I also didn't want to realize the special effects in some of my favourite childhood movies are painfully bad. Sometimes these things just happen. One of my strongest glitter memories is...
Rose Gold Lip Gloss
Ok, so I may be a touch late to the party on this one, but isn't rose gold the prettiest?! In the past I've shied away from pink. Not for me, I thought—too... pink 😜 This stance has softened over the last few years and I now find that rose gold has nestled...
Tinted Coal Lip Balm
I thought I'd mix things up a bit with this seasonal lip balm and bring my Lumps of Coal holiday theme to the realm of lip balms. And I love it. It definitely seemed a bit odd when I jotted down the idea a few weeks ago, with aims of avoiding creating something dark...
Winter Wonderland Lip Gloss
This soft, sparkly Winter Wonderland lip gloss has a lovely champagne hue in the tube, but goes on sheer with a hit of shimmer and a hint of sparkle. It's also a bit thicker than some of my previous lip glosses, as per some reader requests, meaning it sticks around...
Pumpkin Shimmer Lip Gloss
It's still two days until it's "technically" autumn, but Calgary clearly missed that memo—our trees have been turning since late August. Along with coarsely knit knee socks, my scarf collection, and this awesome jacket that I bought on sale in May and haven't had a...
